Afro-pop artist Adina Ndamse Thembi, popularly known as Adina, has shared that she will not be troubled if her ‘Araba’ album, doesn’t gain recognition in any award scheme.
The musician made this known during an interview session with an Accra-based radio station. Adina noted that she understands every award scheme has rules and criteria it works with, thus if her album does not make it to the nominations or wins an award, she will assume that her album did not meet the criteria.
“If my ‘Araba’ album does not win say ‘Album of the Year’ award, I won’t be so much worried because I believe award schemes have got their reasons and maybe from what they looked at, my album didn’t check in the boxes”.
Meanwhile, she has advised artists to desist from letting awards determine their worth in the music industry. She further asserted that awards are just an additional element in one’s music career, and explained that the real deal is to affirm to yourself that you are the best at what you do so far as you are working hard.
“Award is that thing that if you are able to get your hands on, becomes a beautiful addition especially for certain categories, maybe like the vocalist category. If you get an award for example best female vocalist, you feel accomplished. Then, that is to say that, the work I am putting in is being recognized. It is a nice addition but if you have never received an award and you know in your heart that you are good and you are putting in the best, that is also fine”.
Late last year, Adina debut her album ‘Araba’. The album has 10 songs with production credit to Lynx Entertainment CEO; Richie Mensah, and award-winning in-house Lynx Entertainment disc jockey, Kofi Amoako popularly known as DJ Vyrusky.
It can be recalled that recently Adina expressed that unlike other musicians who had to put a lot on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it rather equipped her in putting together her ‘Araba’ album.
When asked if COVID-19 had affected her recording the album she said, “No, I don’t think Covid-19 affected my album at all. My album was released 3 months to the end of the year and even though that was the case, it has still managed to travel and connect with a lot of people”.
According to the Afro-Pop songstress, she was supposed to go on a musical tour around the globe, and because she didn’t tour, it gave her ample time to put her album together. Adina moreover said that unlike other artists complaining about the pandemic affecting their distribution, she didn’t get affected since she and her team found ways to sell her music.
“As per the plans for the year 2020, I was supposed to be out of the country on tour. If I had done that I probably wouldn’t have had the time to put together the album. These days it’s all about digitization and distributing on all these platforms. So once you get that done you’re good. Even now we have virtual concerts and we’ve adjusted as a people. We’ve found out ways to still reach out to music lovers, so I don’t think Covid-19 would have affected me”.
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